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Each drug is designed to act upon a particular organ or upon particular tissues. But as Lieut. Colonel Robert H. Moser of the Army Medical Corps told a Palo Alto, Calif., symposium on "Diseases of Medical Progress": "We are inclined to forget that the drug is also in contact with other tissues. Effects in those areas are not immediately evident: subtle influences may be at work and may become manifest only later." Such long-range effects, Dr. Moser warned, may never be traced to the drug that caused them. "This is a shadow world of pathophysiology, where relation of cause...
Connection, Harvard's visual arts magazine, is holding a symposium at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Hunt Hall A. Panelists will include James Askerman, chairman of the Fine Arts department Jan Rowan, editor of Progressive Architecture, and students from Yale, Harvard and M.I.T...
Just as the human fetus has long been thought capable of absorbing adequate nourishment even if the mother is starving, so the human brain has been considered able to develop normally even in a starving infant. But this could be an outdated thesis, said researchers at a Boston symposium on mental retardation convened by the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation. There is a growing body of evidence that mental retardation is sometimes the result of malnutrition, and in the case of premature babies, who by definition have not been nourished up to a normal birth weight, the effects...
...eager to bring Judaism into interfaith explorations. Last year one such friendly dialogue, involving 26 Catholic and Jewish scholars, took place at St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa. Lutherans have held four theological discussions with Jewish scholars at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. Harvard Divinity School is planning a symposium in October on Jewish- Christian dialogue for its 150th anniversary this year...
Pappenheimer, a professor of Biology, says he will spend next year "getting caught up" in his research and writing. In October, he will present a paper on "The Biology of an Infectious Disease" at an international symposium on bacterial toxins in Prague. Then he will go to Osnka University in Japan where he will spent a few weeks doing microbiological research with a former student...